As reported just after Le Mans, the last few months have seen a number of brand new Aston Martin Racing V12 Vantage GT3's leave the Prodrive factory.

Two have already been exported to their new owners around the world whilst what we believe to be the newest chassis has recently been delivered to the AF Racing squad, the racing division of Swiss based Aston Martin St Gallen.

Seen here in the teams beautiful grey livery with blue details, we assume that this GT3 will see its first track action at the next VLN meeting on the Nordschleife in a few weeks time instead of their trusted V8 Vantage GT4 as well featuring in the Liqui-Moly 12Hours of Bathurst next February.

With the new Vantage GTE expected to hit the test tracks later this year, 2018 will be the swan song year for this iteration of Vantage GT3 before the new shape then hits production.

Despite its age, the Vantage has continued to prove itself still to be a winner!

+++++ Sunday 6th August saw the car test for the first with the team with the assistance of AMR works driving Darren Turner.